ANOTHER COUNTRY - James Balwin

The Classic Novel by the Award-Winning Author of Go Tell It On the Mountain that Captures the Vibrancy of a Circle of Bohemian Friends in '50s New York. The first unabridged recording of this essential work DESCRIPTION Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. AUTHOR INFORMATION James Baldwin (1924–1987) was educated in New York. He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Another Country, and Blues for Mister Charlie. He has received many awards including the Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986. NARRATOR INFORMATION Veteran actor and narrator Dion Graham who appeared on The Wire on HBO and narrated The First 48 on A&E, as well as various projects for the BBC and PBS. He has performed on and Off-Broadway, internationally, in films and in several hit television series. “An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience.” —THE WASHINGTON POST